On Knots Part II - Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XXXII. Read 2nd June, 1884, with Appendix : Note on a Problem in Partitions (Read July 7, 1884) and On Knots Part III (Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1885)

IGKT Resources box 2, item 27

Photocopy of writings on mathematical knot theories, mainly originally dated from 1884 and 1885 but with 1898 notes.

On Knots Part II - Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XXXII. Read 2nd June, 1884. 'One main object of the present brief paper is to take advantage of the results obtained by Kirkman, and thus to extend my census of distinct forms to knottiness of the 8th and 9th orders'.

Appendix : Note on a Problem in Partitions (Read July 7, 1884). Discusses the partition method of constructing knots of any order of knottiness.

On Knots Part III (Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1885). 'Additional remarks [which] are the outcome of my study of the polyhedral data for tenfold knottiness'.

At the end are some pages of photocopies and transcription of a German note/letter on knots, quipus etc. - its relation to Tait's writings is unclear.

Black and white drawings and tables. 40 bound pages.